Nanavati Commission

NEW DELHI: Expressing disbelief over the Nanavati Commission report which gave a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Thursday said no youth would have turned terrorists had the BJP leader been punished. "People will not believe that Modi is innocent. He is a communal virus centre and has been disallowed to travel abroad. Had he been punished for his crime, no youth would have turned terrorists today," Prasad, who had...

AHMEDABAD: 2014 was a watershed year for Gujarat as its most popular leader Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of the country leading BJP to a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha polls while the state got its first-ever woman Chief Minister in Anandiben Patel. BJP won all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat. However, in a dampener, the party lost three Assembly seats out of nine to Congress which were previously held by their MLAs in the bypolls. The...

AHMEDABAD: The Nanavati Commission probing the 2002 riots in Gujarat has been granted another extension of six months till December 31 this year by Gujarat government , officials said today. It is the 20th time that the tenure of the Commission, currently comprising retd Justices G T Nanavati and Akshay Mehta, was extended. Last time, its term was extended was in December 2012. "The state government has extended the term of the Commission by six months upto December 31, 2013,"...

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat government has given one year extension to Justice Nanavati and Justice Mehta Commission probing 2002 Godhra and post-Godhra communal riots, state government officials said on Saturday. "The commission had asked for one year extension to submit its second part report which the government has granted," minister of state for Law Amit Shah told the media. He said that the commission's term has been extended till December 2009. The commission's term...

GANDHINAGAR: Justice Nanavati Commission today submitted its final report on the 2002 Gujarat riots to state Chief Minister Anandiben Patel . "We have submitted the report, which runs into more than 2,000 pages," Justice Nanavati told PTI, but refused to divulge any contents of the report. The commission members - Retd Supreme Court Justice G T Nanavati and Retd High Court Justice Akshay Mehta - drove to the residence of Patel and submitted...

AHMEDABAD: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt today requested Justice (retd) GT Nanavati Commission, probing the 2002 communal riots, to take on record his two affidavits alleging complicity of Gujarat government which he had filed before the National Commission for Minorities (NCM). He also requested the panel to direct the state government to furnish Intelligence records of 2002. In his affidavits submitted to NCM in 2012, Bhatt had alleged that Supreme...

GANDHINAGAR: The Nanavati Commission, which is probing the post-Godhra riots cases, is expected to submit its report by June 30, Minister of State for Home Amit Shah today said. Replying to a question by Congress MLA Gyasaudin Sheikh in the Gujarat Assembly, he said the Nanavati Commission has been given 13 extensions. Shah said the scope of the Commission was expanded by the state government in order to examine the role of ministers including...

AHMEDABAD: IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt , who has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court implicating Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots, today said he could reveal "much more" before the Nanavati Commission. "I can tell the Nanavati Commission that (about what he has said in the affidavit) and much more because I was privy to much more," Bhatt told reporters here. "When I approached the Supreme Court...

AHMEDABAD: A two-member commission headed by Justice G T Nanavati today submitted the first part of its report on the 2002 Sabarmati train carnage at Godhra and subsequent riots to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The Commission, appointed by the Modi Government after the worst-ever riots in the state and comprising retired Justices Nanavati and Akshay Mehta, examined more than 1,000 witness during the period of six years. The report was...

AHMEDABAD: In a relief to Narendra Modi , the Gujarat High Court today rejected a petition seeking directions to the Nanavati Commission to summon the State Chief Minister for questioning in connection with the 2002 riots. A division bench of Justice Akil Kureshi and Sonia Gokani while rejecting the application of NGO Jan Sangarsh Manch observed that the Commission has larger discretionary powers to call witnesses. The...

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court today disposed of the review petition filed by Justice G T Nanavati Commission , which is probing the 2002 riots , against a court's order allowing the suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt to inspect the state intelligence records. A division bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala said the Commission refused to allow Bhatt to inspect the records without being aware of the High Court's...

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Government today granted yet another extension of one month till October 31 to the Justice Nanavati Commission , the 24th since it was set up, probing the 2002 post-Godhra riots. "The Nanavati Commission has today sent their proposal seeking one-month extension till October 31, which was granted by the Gujarat Government," state Law Secretary VP Patel told PTI. This is the 24th extension granted to the commission by state government, which is reportedly in...

AHMEDABAD: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt today alleged that Gujarat government , with the indulgence of Justice G T Nanavati inquiry commission, resorted to obfuscation in the matter of providing him with intelligence records related to 2002 riots. "The Commission is requested to kindly apply its mind and see through this exercise in the deliberate obfuscation and instruct the state to separately produce all the 38 documents as ordained by the High...

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court today disposed of the review petition filed by Justice G T Nanavati Commission , which is probing the 2002 riots , against a court's order allowing the suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt to inspect the state intelligence records. A division bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala said the Commission refused to allow Bhatt to inspect the records without being aware of the High Court's...

NEW DELHI: The UPA government will name a judge for investigating the Gujarat 'snoopgate' before May 16, Law Minister Kapil Sibal today said and rubbished BJP leader Arun Jaitley's claim that no judge will "lend" himself to the "political and malafide" exercise targeting Narendra Modi. Sibal also said that Modi against whom accusations have been made in the controversy will be investigated. "You will get a snoopgate judge before May 16. I don't know why these...

NEW DELHI: Defending the decision to set up an inquiry commission to go into the Gujarat snoopgate, Law Minister Kapil Sibal today accused BJP of "double speak" and said a probe ordered by the Narendra Modi government on it will meet the fate of a probe panel on post-Godhra riots which is yet to give its report. "The Nanavati Commission was set up by Narendra Modi in order to help absolve himself of any wrong doing in Gujarat. Instead of four months, it has...

NEW DELHI: Snoopgate will not be allowed to be "whitewashed or brushed under carpet", Union Minister Kapil Sibal said today, asking BJP to replace Narendra Modi as its PM candidate. Upping the ante against the Gujarat Chief Minister over the issue, Sibal said that snoopgate is a national issue and hence the government will take it up very seriously. "We believe that action should happen in this case. We assure that we will not allow it to be whitewashed or...